Darth Wredd's insurgency

In the year 138 ABY, the renegade Sith known as Darth Wredd initiated an insurgency against both the One Sith and the Galactic Federation Triumvirate. The One Sith were in hiding and secretly infiltrating planetary governments throughout the galaxy, but Wredd, laying low on the planet Mala in the Surd Nebula, killed his master and captured Yalta Val, an Imperial Knight of the Galactic Federation Triumvirate. He then began supervising the construction of the Carreras G51 communications array while posing as Val.

A hydrospanner was thrown into the works when the junk dealer Ania Solo discovered Val's lightsaber inside of an Imperial communications droid. The Carreras Incident—Wredd's attempt to retrieve the weapon, first through attacking Solo at her junkyard and later by setting up a blockade of the Carreras system—finally saw Solo and her companions captured by a Shifalan patrol ship and imprisoned aboard the communications array. When the Shifalan governor Biala realized that Wredd was in fact a Sith, she released the prisoners, who attacked Wredd in one of the array's hangars.

Wredd gravely injured Solo's companions: the engineer Sauk, the droid AG-37, and the Imperial Knight Jao Assam, who had come to the system to find the missing Val. The relatively unscathed Solo commandeered Jao's starfighter and followed the departing Wredd to the surface of Mala, where Wredd was using the communications array to broadcast a declaration of his insurgency across the galaxy. Solo helped Val escape, and as he dueled Wredd with his recovered lightsaber, Solo noticed that the Sith was remotely causing the communications array to crash into Mala. She returned to the array to retrieve her friends aboard AG-37's freighter, and rescued Val before the crash could occur. Wredd, meanwhile, escaped.

The makeshift crew of AG-37's freighter were retrieved by the Animus, a Star Destroyer belonging to the Galactic Triumvirate. Although Sauk and AG-37 took their leave, Jao Assam went renegade and left in a shuttle with Solo to hunt for Wredd. Their hunt took them to Nalyd, and later to Dac. Wredd, meanwhile, was seeking out various Sith who had infiltrated planetary governments and systematically killing them, hoping to be the only Sith left. At Dac's shipyards, Solo and Assam discovered that the Sith Lord Darth Luft was building a pirate fleet, information that their communications droid transmitted to Yalta Val. As a space battle raged, Val and Admiral Gar Stazi of the Triumvirate arrived at Dac with a fleet. The combined Imperial and Galactic Alliance force succeeded in liberating the enslaved Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves there and apprehending the pirates. During the fighting, Darth Luft was personally killed by Jao Assam.

Following the liberation of the Mon Calamari shipyards, Jao Assam and Ania Solo realize that by killing Darth Luft, they had merely played into the hands of Darth Wredd, who was systematically killing members of the One Sith and intended to restore the Rule of Two. Jao, Sauk, and AG-37 were forced to temporarily abandon their hunt for Darth Wredd when Ania Solo was kidnapped by her former love interest Ramid, who was responding to a bounty on Ania's head. Ania had been framed for the murder of the Imperial Knight Teemen Alton by an old enemy, who had adopted the persona of a bounty hunter. The mission to rescue Ania Solo led Jao and her companions to a remote planet, which rained glass and acid. Following a prolonged skirmish, Ania succeeded in killing the bounty hunter. However, she was subsequently arrested by Imperial stormtroopers, who brought her to Coruscant to face trial. In the end, Ania was cleared when Master Yalta Val and Jao Assam presented evidence that Ania was not Teemen Alton's murderer. Despite Ania's release, Jao Assam was arrested and imprisoned on charges of deserting the Imperial Knights order.

At that point, Darth Wredd resurfaced on Coruscant and freed Jao Assam from his prison, offering the Imperial Knight a place as a Sith apprentice. Determined to foil Wredd's plot to kill Galactic Empress Marasiah Fel, Jao followed Darth Wredd to the floating world of Mala. Jao quickly learnt that Darth Wredd had been forced to join the One Sith, who had destroyed his homeworld and killed his family. As revenge, Darth Wredd wanted to destroy the One Sith. He tricked Jao into luring both the One Sith and the Imperial Knights onto Mala, which became the site of a great battle which saw the apparent destruction of the One Sith. At the end of the battle, Darth Wredd attempted to assassinate Marasiah Fel with the intent of driving Jao Assam to the dark side of the Force. However, Jao remained true and loyal to his Empress. In the end, Darth Wredd was killed with a blaster by Ania. Following the end of Darth Wredd's insurgency, Empress Fel revised the Imperial Knights' rules to allow its members to follow the light side of the Force rather than the Empress. Jao joined Ania and her companions on their travels throughout the galaxy.

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